People, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than governments.

Everybody lives an epic.

The decline and fall of civilization are barely noticed by most of its citizens.

When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.

Seeds that are sown in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

No matter how great your wisdom, you can still make a fool of yourself.

A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

Better to have something to say than to have to say something.

The struggle is the architect of the soul.

Whatever you do without confidence will be done badly.

The world moves, and ideas that were once good are not always good.

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

If I didn't have air supremacy, I wouldn't be here.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

I'm saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

Work should be for all of us a word as honourable and appealing as patriotism.

The stop-watch of history is running. The race is on . . .

Memory should be the starting point of the present.